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  1. NatJ

    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    Sometimes feathers just do get their pigment in weird ways. For example, some kinds of dietary deficiencies or excesses can cause weird coloring. But this one still LOOKS like barring. I'll look forward to seeing the results! I've read of a few cases when hens stored sperm for longer than a...
  2. NatJ

    Why does this pullet have green legs?

    Not true for mixed breed chickens. Earlobe color does not predict egg color. Sort-of true for purebred chickens, because the earlobe color can help you figure out what breed the chicken is, and once you know the breed you also know what egg color they will lay. There are a lot of breeds with...
  3. NatJ

    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    I agree. That does look like barring. I can't be sure whether it IS barring, but it definitely LOOKS like barring. I don't know where the barring came from, but I do know how to be sure of what it is: test-mate the bird to see what you get in the chicks. Mating with a black chicken will give...
  4. NatJ

    Looking for studies that illustrate safety of giving honey to baby birds

    Yes, it's easy to get chicken recipes in a search! That is why I tried putting "poultry" in my search. It seems to help get studies on the live creatures, instead of recipes :D
  5. NatJ

    Pecking gone to cannibalism. How to I figure this one out?

    Thank you for updating, and for giving so many details! It is very nice to know the final outcome, and what things you did that helped or might have helped👍
  6. NatJ

    Looking for studies that illustrate safety of giving honey to baby birds

    Since you are looking for studies, I tried a google search with all of these terms: study honey poultry chicks I turned up several studies. Here are links to two of them (assuming I don't mess them up): https://aab.copernicus.org/articles/69/11/2026/...
  7. NatJ

    Chicken Coop & Run, how many chickens?

    It is very frustrating when coops have a misleading label like that! It could work for that many chickens in some specific situations, but not in all situations. It probably does work for 10-12 bantams (extra-small chickens). In some climates, when the chickens can go outside all day long on...
  8. NatJ

    Anyone know what breed this is?!🐣🐓

    In that case, probably too young to be obvious about what kind of feathering it will have.
  9. NatJ

    Anyone know what breed this is?!🐣🐓

    How long ago did you get the chick? I'm wondering if it is so young it did not yet grow feathers, or if it is older but has silkie feathers.
  10. NatJ

    Urgent advice ASAP

    I do not know how to make it be quiet. But it does not look like the chicken is distressed or upset, so maybe just get yourself a pair of earplugs and wait to see what other people suggest?
  11. NatJ

    Chicken Coop & Run, how many chickens?

    I gather you haven't seen the common recommendations for each chicken to have 4 square feet of space in the coop and 10 square feet of space in the run. If you follow that guideline, your coop at 4x6 feet would only be big enough for 6 chickens, and your run at 6x10 feet would be big enough for...
  12. NatJ

    Urgent advice ASAP

    I see why you compared it to a harmonica! Unfortunately, I do not have any useful ideas for why the chicken may be making that sound :( Based on the video that has now been uploaded, I'm pretty sure it is "something else."
  13. NatJ

    What breed is this? Campine, Yokohama, cross?

    I wonder if it is a purebred Campine, but without the hen feathering? Campines have a form of hen feathering, so the males do not usually grow the tail & saddle feathers like what yours is showing. Hen feathering also affects the coloring. With hen feathering, the males and females have the...
  14. NatJ

    Urgent advice ASAP

    Does it sound anything like this? (I only listened to the first 10 seconds, so I don't know if the video has anything else.)
  15. NatJ

    Ways to keep my chickens entertained?

    A bit of new bedding can have the same effect, even without scratch or treats. Or sometimes you can just use a shovel to turn over a bit of the bedding on the floor, and they will get busy scratching there, without you adding anything edible. This makes the most difference if the bedding has...
  16. NatJ

    Unexpected chick colors

    This is very interesting! I think the Silver must have come from one of the Malines, because there is no way for a Buckeye to carry Silver while looking their normal red/brown color. Regarding the striping on the chick down, and the black & silver on those chicks, I'm going to guess that one...
  17. NatJ

    Things you wish you could say

    Would that be a one-time change and then leave it alone? Might be better than what we have now. Or would it be changing twice a year, by 30 minutes instead of 1 hour? That would be just as bad as it is now, or maybe even worse.
  18. NatJ

    Can a mother hen eat medicated food?

    I thought I saw photos of two sides of the same package: one with lots of small print (hard to read because of the way plastic reflects light) and one of the front of the bag. In the photo of the small-print side, when I zoom in on the last big fat paragraph, it seems to say: "This feed...
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    Can a mother hen eat medicated food?

    That sounds like a good plan. I hope everything goes well!
  20. NatJ

    Can a mother hen eat medicated food?

    It's a bit hard to read the label in the picture (reflected light is a nuisance when taking photos!) But I'm pretty sure it says the medication is monensin sodium at a rate of 125 mg per kg of feed. I'm not familiar with that particular medication, so I looked it up. I find lots of sources--...
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